Christopher Reed on War & Peace

Republican challenger

Support the surge; wants more positive news coverage

A: I think that over the last year, since the increase in the surge, I agree with what is going on in Iraq and I support it.
The Iraqi troop level is up to over 540,000.

Q: What about the polls that people overwhelmingly oppose the war?

A: I'm not sure that Americans overwhelmingly oppose it.
I think the idea that they're not getting all the correct stats like those that I just gave, if more of that positive news came out instead of just the doom and gloom of Iraq came out I think more
Americans would see what's really going on over there.

Q: So, it's our fault.

A: No, I wouldn't say that. I just think that people need to be informed of what's going on.

Saddam was a madman who had WMDs and used them

Q: What do you say to the argument that the war in Iraq is really all about oil?

A: Propaganda. I think it was a madman that had possession
and had used weapons of mass destruction before and was willing and able to use them again and we had to make sure that wasn't going to happen.